Thursday, October 20, 2016

The rock musical Wasted opens today, October 20, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds:

Wasted
Courtyard Theatre
October 20, 21,22 at 7:45pm
October 22 at 02:30pm

A new musical drama telling the remarkable true story of four young people with huge passions and amazing dreams.
Misfit kids from a Yorkshire village yearn to be heard, find fame beyond their wildest hopes and die tragically young. Full of energy, emotion and humour, with songs inspired by their shocking, controversial genius, Wasted is the Brontës as you have never seen them before.
This ‘demo-tape’ workshop gives Playhouse audiences the exclusive first chance to experience the complete show in a work-in-progress staging.
Wasted has won a prestigious award from the Kevin Spacey Foundation.

Kate Bush famously took Wuthering Heights to the top of the charts - now the Brontës themselves are the subject of their own rock musical, Wasted. The BBC’s entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson went along to final rehearsalsë